A sincere and teachable heart [electronic resource] : self-denying virtue in British intellectual life, 1736-1859 / by Richard Bellon
- Author
- Bellon, Richard (Historian)
- Published
- Leiden : Brill, 2015.
- Physical Description
- VI, 277 pages ; 25 cm
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- Contents
- Part 1. The meaning function of patience and humility -- Common things to speak of the meaning of patience and humility in the nineteenth-century British imagination -- From virtue to duty the Victorian application of patience and humility to social and intellectual life -- Part 2. The eighteenth century -- Character and morality in eighteenth-century British thought -- The utility of virtue -- Patience, utility and revolution -- Part 3. Oxford -- Oxford and the age of reform -- The Oxford movement faith and obedience in a tumultuous and shifting world -- Faith and reason in Newman's university sermons -- The Hampden affair : divergent paths out of a spiritual wilderness -- Thomas Arnold confronts the "Oxford malignants" -- The Tamworth letters : virtue and science -- Tract go and the trial of patience in the Church of England.
- Summary
- "In A Sincere and Teachable Heart : Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859, Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of patience and humility. Three case studies clarify this relationship between intellectual standards and practical moral duty. The first shows that the Victorians adapted a universal conception of sainthood to the responsibilities specific to class, gender, social rank, and vocation. The second illustrates how these ideals of self-discipline achieved their form and cultural vigor by analyzing the eighteenth-century moral philosophy of Joseph Butler, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, and William Paley. The final reinterprets conflict between the liberal Anglican Noetics and the conservative Oxford Movement as a clash over the means of developing habits of self-denial"- -Provided by publisher.
- Subject(s)
- Church of England—History
- Self-denial—Social aspects—Great Britain—History
- Virtue—Social aspects—Great Britain—History
- Patience—Social aspects—Great Britain—History
- Humility—Social aspects—Great Britain—History
- Ethics—Great Britain—History
- Oxford movement—History
- Great Britain—Intellectual life—18th century
- Great Britain—Intellectual life—19th century
- Great Britain—Moral conditions
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9789004263369 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789004263352 (ebook) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index.
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